We are preparing to do some repairs on the left sills/rear wheel arch on our van this summer.

Does anybody know a good store/source of body parts for these vans?

I'm guessing it's a lot better to buy the parts already shaped than fabricate them ourselves.

 

It's a little hard to help if you don't tell us what the vehicle is.

 

96 Dodge RAM Van B2500

 

Check LMC Truck.

 

Thank you for this fantastic resource. I've found exactly what we were looking for.

Looking at the lateral doors we also noticed that the door rubber seals/weatherstrips are shot. Unfortunately LMC Truck don't carry this for Dodge Vans.

Is there any other store or source link we can find those?

Many thanks!

 

I just re-sealed my rear lateral doors. I ended up using a combo of universal bulb style and “B” style weatherstripping. O’reily auto parts had some good quality weatherstripping and lots of styles available in-store. I also used some cheap stuff I bought of amazon. Both have been working well so far, PNW rain tested!
ebay might have some new old stock kits, but use caution. I bought a what was listed as rear door weatherstripping and it was for the windows only. I still used it, but not what I wanted.
carid.com has some kits but they are expensive.

 

Thank you! That's some very useful pointers. So far I was only able to find seals for the front doors but those seem to be the least affected. Weatherstripping on the lateral/rear doors is in pieces and require a quality replacement to go through the next rainy season.

This van grew on us, the more we use it, the more we like it and I hope we are not the only ones feeling this way. We really want to keep it for the long term but any such project needs a good source of quality parts... Unfortunately Chevy/Ford vans have more parts available, including the full set of lateral/rear doors weatherstripping but I just like dodge vans more, is it just us?

 

They always have good inventory of vans at the u-pull-it I go to. I took some godd used weather strip off of one for my back doors.